Julian Rathbone
Posted at 7:42AM Wednesday 05 Mar 2008
'Art is not serious," wrote the novelist Julian Rathbone in an essay "cobbled together" for a collection of his work, The Indispensable Julian Rathbone, in 2003. "[Art] is frivolous. It is subversive. It is ludic, it is play, it is Kubrick's train set. It is the best thing we have on this squidgy little planet." A single paragraph later, Rathbone took a sharp turn. "I can get very angry," he wrote. "Here are the things that make me angry." He then compiled a short annotated list. At the top of the list was "people who take themselves seriously".
Obituary in The Guardian
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